She's one of the few people able to look beyond the lines on my face to see the twenty-year-old who lives inside.

Oh, there was harm indeed for a young lady flattered by the brief attentions of a handsome man.

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.

While I wasn't certain how I felt about spiritualists, I was certain enough about the type of people who were drawn to them. Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.

Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.

All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.